Results tagged “The Sixth Sense” from Birmingham Mail - Mega Movies

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WELCOME back to the big time... Bruce Willis!

Apart from 16 Blocks (2006) and Die Hard 4.0 (2007) and subsequent fun cameos in What Just Happened and Planet Terror, we haven't seen much of the big man in recent years.

Now 54, he first cemented his indelible stardom with Die Hard in 1988 and this November it will be exactly a decade since his last stand-out movie, The Sixth Sense.

Today he's returning again to prove that he's got a Keanu Reeves-like ability to come up with a career-prolonging movie...

M NIGHT Shyamalan's new movie The Happening (15) is opening across the West Midlands tonight.

It's great news for people who love terrible movies.

As for the thousands of film fans who want to see some quality and be entertained, it's a night that can only end in a crushing disappointment.

Just imagine.

Lots of young couples are going to be spending hours getting themselves dolled up, going for a meal, queuing for tickets, queuing for treats, sitting through the ads, trailers and all those messages to keep your lips zipped.

And then The Happening will begin. Sort of. If it ever reaches first gear, it's soon in reverse plummeting down its own shaft like a lift full of coal.

There's a really good snippet early on where people are throwing themselves off buildings. But that's in the trailer anyway.

By the end of the film, this single scene will sum up how many people will be feeling... that they've lost the will to live.

The trailer, of course, tells us that The Happening has been made by the director of The Sixth Sense. What it doesn't suggest is that he must not have one after all otherwise he'd have known to toss the script in the bin ready to avoid some of the worst reviews in history.

The Bruce Willis thriller was a great movie. But it was almost a decade ago.

The Happening is just another turkey from a man who'll soon be in danger of taking Bernard Matthews' crown.

You pays your money and takes your choice, but do read my review in tonight's Birmingham Mail before parting with your hard-earned dosh to watch this tosh.

I'd rather go into a trance and stand still outside for 90 minutes than sit through The Happening again.

If you've seen a worse film recently, let me know. It could become a cult classic.

* PS. The film of the week this week is French and showing only at Broad Street Cineworld. It's called Priceless and stars the lovely Audrey Tautou (Amelie).